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Friday 1st July 2022

Kick Off 19.00 Actual 19.07

Cogenhoe United 2 Irchester United 1, attendance 97

9’ 1-0

34’ 1-1

71’ 2-1

@ Compton Park, Pitch 2

Brafield Road

Cogenhoe

NN7 1ND

Admission by donation

Programme free, 4 pages.

I had visited Cogenhoe United on 26th October 1993, when I saw them beat Long Buckby 1-0 in a United Counties League Premier Division match, which was played on the main stadium pitch, but tonight’s match took place on an outside pitch.

It pitted United Counties League Premier Division South (Step 5) versus Northamptonshire Combination League Premier Division (Step 7). Cogenhoe opened the scoring with an angled shot across the ’keeper, but Irchester levelled eleven minutes before halftime, finishing past the ’keeper having cut in from the left. Cogenhoe won it with nineteen minutes left, finishing from just inside the box, with a shot into the bottom corner that totally wrong footed the visitor’s ’keeper.

I remembered nothing at all about the main stadium here, but the two photos below show what it looks like these days.